Hadley
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Cofounder @EniacVC | Seed investor | Engineer | Built & sold AI startups before it was cool | We’re hiring, apply👇
NYC
Joined September 2007
🚀 We’re hiring a Head of Platform at @EniacVC. If you’re excited to build this function from the ground up, architect how we support founders, turn our network into leverage, and scale programs across GTM, fundraising, and more, we’d love to meet you Link to apply is in my bio
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The coming years will split companies into two groups: those that become AI-native and those left catching up. The innovators who harness AI now will define the winners of tomorrow. Follow me for strategic insights on leading through the AI revolution.
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One thing we do at @EniacVC is keep our investment pace roughly constant over time. In venture, pacing tends to accelerate when valuations spike and slow when they contract. Mathematically, that’s backward: if you deploy pro-cyclically, your capital-weighted average entry price
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16 years ago today, November 19, 2009, we officially incorporated Eniac I. Still feels like Day 1, just with slightly more gray hair. Grateful for all the founders who continue to inspire us every day. Here’s to the next 16. 🚀🚀🚀
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Trapped in a small house, a bizarre visitor is knocking. But is he real, or a hallucination? Your survival depends on one choice: open the door, or take your pill.
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Everyone keeps talking about an AI bubble. The reality is an AI pullback has always been inevitable. People underestimate how slow enterprises are at adopting any new technology. Early AI adoption was pushed top down, and many teams just wanted to check a box for the CEO, which
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🚨 NEW POD ALERT 🚨 What do @Uber, @Roblox, @NotionHQ, @clay, @square, @flexport, @WarbyParker, @flatironhealth and many other 🦄's have in common? They were all seeded by @firstround, the OG seed fund that lends a lot of inspiration to us @EniacVC. On ep20 of the
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One of my pet peeves is when VCs confidently predict the public markets like there aren’t tens of thousands of ivy league educated public market pros who are wrong half the time
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Series A and B markets are strange right now. It is harder than ever to raise, but the few companies that do are raising very large rounds at higher valuations. A and B volume is way down while median valuations are way up. This would seem to indicate the market is getting
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Every tech wave eventually faces the same question: who pays for it? AI is hitting that moment now. Every major computing wave brings its own foundational models, infrastructure, apps, and monetization layers. We saw it with the web, mobile, cloud, and crypto—and now it’s
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Airlines should let you use your seat back screen as an external display. Way more ergonomic for working on long flights
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Contrarian POV: Em dashes were an underutilized punctuation mark — only now reaching their full potential after being unleashed by AI
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I’ve done a bunch of podcasts this year but @humanunicornpod was definitely the most special because the host, my co-founder and one of my best friends @nihalmehta, knows exactly what questions to ask. Check it out below 👇
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🚨 NEW POD ALERT 🚨 On episode 19 of the @humanunicornpod I get to sit down with one of my best friends and co-founder of our firm @EniacVC -- @Hadley! We cover a ton of fun stuff including: - The mindset shift from operator to investor (and why most VCs don’t really
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We run @EniacVC like a startup, so we try to take lessons from the world’s best founders. A few examples that shape how we work: •When we vote on an investment, we all read the memo at the beginning of the meeting before any discussion. (Bezos) •Partners have near-full autonomy
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I know I’ll get shit for this but I think Apple could be the big winner in AI in the end. Once models are small and efficient enough to run on-device, Apple’s control of hardware, chips, and privacy gives them a huge advantage. They won’t need to rely on massive datacenters or
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🥯 Join us this Friday for our final Bagels & Builders of 2025! 🥯 It's been so fun hosting the NYC tech community for breakfast alongside @CommaCapital these past few months, and we have a few spots left for our last session of 2025. Swing by for music, matcha, bagels and the
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